-while test -n "${files}" ; do
- # set file to car of files, files to cdr of files
- set ${files}; file=$1; shift; files=$*
- set ${links}; link=$1; shift; links=$*
-
- if test ! -r ${srcdir}/${file} ; then
- if test ! -r ${file} ; then
- echo '***' "${progname}: cannot create a link \"${link}\"," 1>&2
- echo '***' "since the file \"${srcdir}/${file}\" does not exist." 1>&2
- exit 1
- else
- srcfile=${file}
- fi
- else
- srcfile=${srcdir}/${file}
- fi
-
- ${remove} -f ${link}
- # Make a symlink if possible, otherwise try a hard link
- if ${symbolic_link} ${srcfile} ${link} >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
- true
- else
- # We need to re-remove the file because Lynx leaves a
- # very strange directory there when it fails an NFS symlink.
- ${remove} -r -f ${link}
- ${hard_link} ${srcfile} ${link}
- fi
- if test ! -r ${link} ; then
- echo '***' "${progname}: unable to link \"${link}\" to \"${srcfile}\"." 1>&2
- exit 1
- fi